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Negroes are filling increasing numbers of skilled and semi-skilled railroad jobs, but unwillingness to employ Negroes in many types of railroad jobs persists, April 1943

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Original negative #: D-9940; Caption on back: "Negroes are filling increasing numbers of skilled and semi-skilled railroad jobs, but unwillingness to employ Negroes in many types of railroad jobs persists. (April 1943)
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Photographs
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United States. Office of War Information
Created Date:
1943
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. Defense Industry
  2. Railroad Employees
  3. War Work

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